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"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
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"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
Result
"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
Duty
"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings."
Development
"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
World
"Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages."
Time
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
Experience
"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
People
"But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity."
Work
"I have never designed a language for its own sake."
Language
"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."
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"If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want."
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Personal Development
"Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!"
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Personal Development
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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Personal Development
"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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Personal Development
"Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer."
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Personal Development
"Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity."
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Personal Development
"Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change."
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Personal Development
"Action gives a decision power and finality."
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Personal Development
"One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?"
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